{"id":3415,"date":"2020-05-05T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2020-05-05T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:08:02","slug":"government-expands-virtual-care-and-mental-health-tools-for-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/government-expands-virtual-care-and-mental-health-tools-for-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Expands Virtual Care and Mental Health Tools for Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]On May 3,\u00a0<\/span>the Government of Canada announced an investment of $240.5 million to develop, expand, and launch virtual care and mental health tools to support Canadians. This investment will support Wellness Together Canada<\/a>, an online portal that provides Canadians with free resources, tools, and professional support services to help with wellness and resilience, as well as mental health and substance use.<\/p>\n

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COVID-19 has placed a significant strain on individuals and families across the country. Many people are concerned about their physical and mental well being. Canadians are being challenged in a number of ways because of isolation, financial and employment uncertainty and disruptions to daily life.\u00a0Wellness Together Canada<\/i>\u00a0provides tools and resources to help Canadians get back on track. These include modules for addressing low mood, worry, substance use, social isolation and relationship issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wellness Together Canada<\/i>\u00a0offers the following at\u00a0no cost<\/b>\u00a0to Canadians:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wellness self-assessment and tracking.<\/li>\n
  2. Self guided courses, apps, and other resources.<\/li>\n
  3. Group coaching and community of support.<\/li>\n
  4. Counselling by text or phone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”20″][nectar_btn size=”jumbo” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/ca.portal.gs\/” text=”Access the Wellness Together Canada Website”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The government of Canada has invested $240.5M towards virtual care and mental heath tools for Canadians. Learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}